Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

Listening Post: Batch 528

At the start of 2023, behind closed doors it wasn’t certain if Bare Jams would be able to continue. However, instead of throwing in the towel, it was through a cathartic writing process that the Bare Jams ship was steered into fresh and exciting waters, giving way to their second album “No Rain. No Flowers.” All written in a relatively short burst at the start of 2023, the album has an overall theme of keeping loved ones close, looking after them, and, more broadly, perseverance.

With this album Bare Jams show they are not afraid to take on the serious challenges we all face. However, they are eternal optimists and worldly-wise enough to know we can absolutely turn things around and find our way through the mire. Looking at the world around us, this positive reinforcement is perhaps what we all need to hear. Don’t go numb!

Orange Sunshine

Wear It So Well

British Birds are back with 'My Bar', an absolute bouncing alt-pop corker.
British Birds bring their DIY ethic once again to create wistful acoustic psych combined with infectious, pure pop beats. Catchy, nostalgic, sing-along backing harmonies brilliantly complement Bobby's signature lullaby melody which wonderfully juxtapose the bridge's gnarly call to arms against My Bar's avian villain; the Cuckoo. 
This track's fun, vivacious, live-sounding energy is something you can't turn away from.


My Bar

Before and After Language....This song is a Markov Blanket between the two.....

Before and After Language

Out The Door!

The Boy In The Bagging Area

Unfortunate Day by Liam

Right & Wrong by Ava

Inside by Sofia

Here In My Heart by Georgie

Hall Of Mirrors by Bluebell

Brand New Story by Wao

Beautiful Disaster by Sofia

Happier than Yesterday by Lilly

Baby Blues

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Twayn are twins, Hannah and Grace, who were born and raised in the North East of England.  They have always loved music and Grace has been song writing since she could string words together!  They have sung in choirs and played piano since primary school.  Grace’s passion has always been singing and her voice is classically trained, though pop is where her heart is.  At the beginning of the Covid pandemic the girls received a keyboard and started recording their own music as a lockdown project.  Hannah focussed her attention on instrumentation and production, which she taught herself from scratch, also providing backing vocals to Grace’s lyrics and lead vocals.  At the time, this was more of a solo venture for Grace, supported by her twin.  By the end of summer 2021, then still only 16, the single “sweet 16”, was debuted under the name GRACE, hotly followed by an EP, “pity party”, which centred around the challenges faced around friendships, relationships, and peer pressures.

At the end of 2021 the twins decided to formalise working together and the duo, Twayn, was created (@twayntwins). “What Dreams Are Made Of”, their debut single singing together under the name Twayn, was launched in January 2021.

Out The Door!

Twayn

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